Environmental Economics and Government Responses to Market Failure

Closeup of smoke from a stack at the Phillips Power Station of the Duquesne Light Company outside of Pittsburgh, PA in 1975. The company installed wet scrubbers to minimize emissions in a $42 million environmental improvement project. (Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.)

Course Description

This course explores the theory behind and evidence on regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure. Special emphasis is given to developing and implementing tools to evaluate environmental policies. Other topics include cost-benefit analysis, measurement of the benefits of non-market goods and costs of regulations, and the evaluation of the impact of regulations in areas such as financial markets, workplace health and safety, consumer product safety, and other contexts.

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